KUSANAGI Case Example: ISTS

ISTS Running KUSANAGI + FastlyExperiences 10 Times Speed At Home And Abroad

TOKYO – July 7th, 2016 – Prime Strategy Co., Ltd. (hereby referred to as Prime Strategy) today announced it had installed its ultrafast WordPress execution environment KUSANAGI to the ISTS ( International Symposium on Space Technology and Science ) . KUSANAGI is capable of an execution time of 3 milliseconds and 1000 requests per second without page caching.

Issues of the ISTS web site

・Took time to display pages abroad having many accesses.
・Concern about strikes against the website.
・When accessed to the Webserver it’s concentrated during the conference and the server was ready to shut down.

Reasons for using our services

・High speed performance was needed.
・PV increase through high-speed performance and higher order of retrieval sequence.
・The UI of administration screens were old, so they had to be renewed.
・Speedy response to the accesses from abroad was needed.

ISTS’s Site Framework

ISTS uses Nginx, HHVM, and MariaDB Galera Server, KUSANAGI for SoftLayer and Fastly that is a powerful real-time CDN.
By introducing Fastly, the performance of the ISTS website has improved dramatically, although the accesses from the USA, Germany, France, and recently from the Middle East, South-Eastern Asia, China, Korea were concentrated during the conference.

Comment from Miwako Shimizu, the Chief of ISTS Organizing Committee

The size of the information of this website took too much time to update pages and programs. When accesses from the USA, Germany, France, and recently from the Middle East, South-Eastern Asia, China, Korea were concentrated during the conference, the server was ready to crash. After the previous conference, we desided to introduce KUSANAGI. I’m looking forward to the effect of the introduction of KUSANAGI.

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About Fastly

Fastly is the only content delivery network (CDN) that gives businesses complete control over how they serve content, unprecedented access to real-time performance analytics, and the ability to cache unpredictably changing content at the edge.

Case Example Details

About Ultrafast WordPress Virtual Machine KUSANAGI

KUSANAGI is a free and open source virtual machine image developed by Prime Strategy, and it is the world’s fastest WordPress execution environment. Even without using page caching, a quad-core CPU WordPress execution time is 3 milliseconds and requests per second surpass 1000. If you choose to use page caching, requests per second will increase to the 60,000 range.

KUSANAGI Development Policy

More than 25% of the world’s websites now use WordPress. Many people are already enjoying its merits. But on the other hand, large-scale sites have begun to wonder if they can use it, too. In order to meet their demand, we developed the world’s fastest WordPress execution environment KUSANAGI. KUSANAGI offers the latest technology and solutions as well as increased convenience and an improved operating environment for people already using WordPress. We hope to further develop KUSANAGI to make one of WordPress’ merits “high speed”.

About Prime Strategy Group

Prime Strategy Group is a cloud integrator solving the issues of cloud computing for global companies, beginning with Asia. With presences in Japan, Singapore, and Indonesia, we offer cloud integration services, mainly in the form of SI and MSP on cloud platforms.

On the business front, we architect web systems for government bodies as well as corporations that represent both domestic and foreign industries. These include the Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA), the University of Tokyo, TV Asahi, Mynavi, Adobe Systems, JTB Asia Pacific, and Bank Negara Indonesia. We have also constructed many large-scale WordPress sites in Japan.

We created the Ultrafast WordPress Virtual Machine KUSANAGI from years of experience. The VM is offered for free on most major cloud platforms, and we recommend KUSANAGI Fully Managed Service as a one-stop tuning and maintenance service from server to WordPress itself.